World
Monuments Map Puzzle

Geography
is the study of places, including the people who live or have lived
there. People have built monuments because something mattered, and to
show that it mattered. They became a major part of where they were
built and have often come to stand for that place.
The heart of geography, and even the source
of its name is the map—a picture of the world which organizes our
understanding of places. Geography is not
just the locations of political boundaries or the physical landscape,
but also the cultural landscape. Manipulating a map, assembling it, is the
best way to learn where things are, and how near or far they are to
each other. The map is a framework that brings other knowledge
together and makes the world understandable. Geography is spatial, why not study it spatially?Monuments
are meant to last; to be there for future generations. The majority of
the monuments are religious, but often not the religion of the people
who live there now modern Egyptians are mostly Muslims, not
believers in Osiris or Ra. We are not even certain of the religious
beliefs of the builders of Stonehenge or the Easter Island statues,
but we know their beliefs were important to them, for them to have
built what they did.The basic
reason for monuments, and our response to them, may be that we want
some part of our culture and our lives to be permanent and remembered.
But permanent is a relative term the pyramids are the only one of
the seven wonder of the ancient world that still exist. Shelley
captured this in his poem Ozymandias:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and
despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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